The pedestrian right of way has been codified in American culture as an ultimate form of laziness. Self entitled, distracted walkers are thorns in the sides of motorists and their ability to keep the flow of traffic going. This is utter blasphemy and reform is long overdue!
Simply put: car > person.
In a battle to the death, I'd put my money on a steel demon with wheels over ugly bags of mostly water any day.
I understand laws are created for the safety of the general public due to our inability to accept natural selection as a cure to mankind's idiotic ailments and overabundance of people on the planet.
I'm not calling for a revoking of laws, all I'd like to see is a little hustle out of the crosswalking ass-clowns of society.